DOC NYC launches with incredible Line-up: Maya and the Wave, Conspiracy, Cirque De Soleil
DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival — running in-person November 9 – 17 and continuing online through November 27 — announced the first four titles of its 13th edition, including the US Premiere of Maya and the Wave as its Opening Night Film.
DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival — runs in-person November 9 – 17
Opening Night Film Maya and the Wave, directed by Stephanie Johnes, the film will screen at SVA Theatre on Wednesday, November 9.
Three films making their World Premieres, all currently seeking U.S. distribution, were also announced for the festival’s Closing Night and Centerpiece Presentations.
Maya and the Wave, directed by Stephanie Johnes, profiles Brazilian athlete Maya Gabeira
DOC NYC’S Opening Night presentation, as she overcomes a brush with death to make history in the male-dominated world of big wave surfing.
The screening will be followed by a conversation on stage with Johnes and Gabeira. Maya and the Wave is produced by Johnes and co-producer Jorge Leal, and has worldwide distribution rights available.
“We are elated to open DOC NYC with Stephanie Johnes’s inspiring testament to self-empowerment and boundary-breaking,
in a visually spectacular arena,”
DOC NYC Artistic Director Jaie Laplante.
This year’s in-person DOC NYC event will close with the World Premiere of The Conspiracy from Maxim Pozdorovkin (Our New President, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer), an animated documentary that traces almost 250 years of insidious anti-Semitic ideology by following the fates of three Jewish family dynasties.
World Premiere of The Conspiracy from Maxim Pozdorovkin
The film is produced by Allison Stern, Caroline Hirsch, Joe Bender, and Dan Cogan, and features voice-over artists Liev Schreiber, Jason Alexander, Lake Bell, Ben Shenkman, Mayim Bialik and many others.
features voice-over artists Liev Schreiber, Jason Alexander, Lake Bell, Ben Shenkman, Mayim Bialik and many others.
The Conspiracy will screen at SVA Theatre on Thursday, November 17. The screening will be followed by an on-stage Q&A with the filmmakers.
DOC NYC 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Barbara Kopple returns with her latest work
The first of the festival’s two Centerpiece presentations will be the World Premiere of two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker (and DOC NYC 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient) Barbara Kopple’s Gumbo Coalition.
Barbara Kopple’s Gumbo Coalition
The film follows two contemporary civil rights leaders, Marc Morial and Janet Murguía, as they work to empower African American and Latino American communities to achieve a more just and equitable country, while weathering the challenges of a global pandemic, the murder of George Floyd and the 2020 presidential election.
Produced by Kopple, David Cassidy, Williams Cole and Ray Nowosielski, Gumbo Coalition will be presented on Saturday, November 12 at SVA Theatre.
The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with Kopple, Morial and Murguía and other members of the film team.
Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net plays Sunday, November 13
Also screening as a festival Centerpiece presentation is Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net, playing Sunday, November 13 at SVA Theatre.
Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net
Director Dawn Porter (John Lewis: Good Trouble and a 2016 DOC NYC Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence recipient) received unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to the world’s greatest circus as it worked toward re-opening its flagship Las Vegas production “O” following more than a year of pandemic shutdown.
Porter captures the uncertainty that both performers and crew members face as they strive to return to their world-class standards in time for the (re)opening night curtain.
The film is produced by Porter, Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, Mark Burnett and Barry Poznick.
Performers from Cirque du Soleil will be on-hand and a Q&A with the filmmakers will take place after the screening.
The 2022 DOC NYC festival will take place both in person and online starting on Wednesday, November 9
The 2022 DOC NYC festival will take place both in person and online starting on Wednesday, November 9, with in-person screenings and events held at IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Cinepolis Chelsea through Thursday, November 17.
The festival’s online offerings will continue through Sunday, November 27.
The complete lineup of more than 110 documentary features and 100 short films will be announced in the second week of October.
An All Film Pass, offering access to DOC NYC’s full lineup of in-person and online screenings, can be purchased for $995 ($699 early bird discount available through October 12) at www.docnyc.net.
In addition to screenings, All Film Passholders get complimentary access to the NBC News Studio Lounge at Cinépolis Chelsea, including daily Breakfasts and Happy Hours. Individual screening tickets, including tickets for Opening Night, Closing Night and Centerpiece screenings, will go on sale when the festival’s full lineup is announced in mid-October.
An Online Film Pass, good for all the festival’s online screenings, will also be available in mid-October.
DOC NYC SPONSORS
The festival is made possible by: Leading Media Partners: New York Magazine; The WNET Group Major Sponsors: A&E IndieFilms; Netflix; NBC News Studios; Warner Bros. Discovery Supporting Sponsors: discovery+; National Geographic Documentary Films; SHOWTIME® Signature Sponsors: Amazon Studios; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Consulate General of Canada in New York; Frankfurt Kurnit; Hulu; NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment; National Geographic; Participant Signature Media Partners: The New Republic; WNYC Event Sponsors: Cinepolis; ESPN; Firelight Media; Fox Rothschild LLP; Impact Partners; JustFilms | Ford Foundation; MTV Documentary Films; Odyssey Impact®, Inc.; Reavis Page Jump LLP; SVA – MFA Social Documentary Film; Telefilm Canada; Wheelhouse Creative Friends of the Festival: Agile Ticketing; CineSend; DCTV; Essentia Water; Kickstarter PBC; Ptex; Shiftboard
DOC NYC is produced and presented by IFC Center, a division of AMC Networks. To inquire about sponsor or partnership opportunities for DOC NYC Executive Director Raphaela Neihausen at raphaela@docnyc.net.
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so making a ready-to-drink version with high-quality ingredients that didn’t compromise on taste was important to me,”
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